Improvement in wash-boilers



UNITED )STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SILAS BENNETT, OF NEWCASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN wAsH-BolLERs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,300, dated September 26, 1871.

` `To all whom it may concern:

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M-y invention has for its object to furnish an improved boiler for washing clothes, which shall be so constructed and arranged as to distribute the circulating suds evenly over all parts of the clothes so as to wash the clothes evenly and avoid staining them, as is the case where large streams of suds are discharged continuously in one place; `and it consists in the construction and arrange ment of the various pipes and distributingtubes, as hereinafter more fully described.

A is the boiler, which is constructed in the ordinary manner, and is provided with a close cover, B, which is provided with an adjustable valve, b ,to allow the surplus steam to escape when required and thusprevent vthe suds from boiling l over. C is a perforated false bottom, which is supported at alittle distance above the true bot- .tom of said boiler A by short studs or legs c.

To the upper sides of the bottom C is attached or upon it is formed a series of upwardly-projecting anges or ribs, c2, to prevent the clothes from being pressed down or packed upon the bottom C and thus preventing the suds from iiowing back freely into the space below the said bottom C. To the middle part of the bottom C,

near its side edges, are attached the lower ends of two pipes, D,`which open into the space beneath the false bottom C. The pipes D extend upward about half the height of the boiler A, and

' are connected at their upper ends by means of elbows d with two tubes, E, which are nelyperforated to allow the suds to escape in ne streams. The elbows d should be of such a length as to bring the perforated tubes E about midway between the sides and center of the boiler A. The perforated tubes E should have cross-strips F attached to them, to keep the clothes above the tubes E from pressing down upon the clothes below said tubes and thus becoming packed into a close mass. To the false bottom C, near its end edges, are attached the lower ends of the pipes G, which open into the space below the said bottom G. The pipes C extend up to or nearly to the top of the boiler A, and with their upper ends are connected the ends of a tube, H, which eX- tends longitudinally across the middle part of the boiler and is finely perforated to discharge the circulating suds in small streams upon the clothes. With the perforated tube H are con nected small cross-tubes I, which are also finely perforated. By this construction the circulating suds will be evenly distributed in small streams over all parts of the clothes, washin g them quickly and thoroughly.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The iianged and perforated bottom G, vertical pipes D d! G, longitudinal perforated tubes E H, small perforated cross-tubes I, and cross-strips F, constructed and arranged in connection with each other, andwith the boiler A and cover B, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

SILAS BENNETT. 

